question of the day: Will we ever see an avowed atheist as a cinematic hero?

To which Dave Graham replied:

I'd wager Batman is not a religious man. :)

Which got me thinking. Batman may not be religious, but he has never come out and said anything like: “There are no gods, so we all have to look after ourselves, so we’d better get going on that.” (At least there’s nothing in the Batman movies like that, and it’s movies we’re talking about here.) Few characters of any kind on film (or TV) express any kind of religious belief, but it’s still far more common to see explicitly religious characters -- people who pray, or attend a religious service, or make mention of a concrete belief in God -- than it is to see explicitly areligious characters: people who say, “I’m an atheist” or “I don’t believe in God,” or who refuse to engage in a religious ceremony because it means nothing to them. Given that:

Will we ever see an avowed atheist as a cinematic hero? Can you think of any in existing movies or television series?

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